No Maternity Leave For You

More mothers are back at work one month after giving birth, The Los Angeles Times reports. Yes, you read that correctly—one month.

According to new figures released by the Census Bureau, "8 out of 10, or 82 percent, of working women whose first child was born from 2006 to 2008 were back on the job within a month," the L.A. Times says in its article.

That's quite a jump from the last census figures from 1991 through 1995 when "73 percent of first-time mothers went back to work in the first month," the bureau says, according to the L.A. Times report.

In the 2006 to 2008 time period studied, the newspaper reports that "just over half of first-time working mothers received paid time off, either maternity leave, sick leave or vacation."